
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES DURING THE YEAR 1895. 99 
In reference to temperature, the mean is lower than those of 
the two previous years. The prolonged severe frosts in the early 
months, and the suniess wet months in the latter part of the year, 
may account for that. The only months which had high mean 
average temperatures were May, June, August, and September. 
The mean for the year was 45°, or 1° less than that for 1894, 
which was also 1° lower than its predecessor. The highest 
reading of the thermometer in shade was 78° on the 26th June, 
which was 1° lower than the highest of 1894. The thermometer 
was at or above 70° four days in May, ten in June, two in July, 
two in August, and five in September, or twenty-three times in 
' all, as compared with nineteen times in 1894. The lowest read- 
ing was on the 10th February, when the minimum thermometer 
fell to 2° below zero, or 34° of frost, The amount of frost 
registered throughout the year was 823°, occurring on 99 days, 
and the coldest month was February, when frost was registered 
every morning. In 1894 January was the coldest month, and 
the total amount of frost registered on 55 mornings was 256°, 
The following comparative table of records taken at different 
Parks is of interest, as thisis the first occasion on which it has been 
possible to compare them. As is the case with the preceding table 
of rainfall, allowance must here also be made for local conditions :— 
